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Schipperke puppies

Schipperke puppies and litters from UK breeders, with the parents’ health tests and licence details.

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Advertise Schipperke puppies for sale

Have a Schipperke litter due or ready? Advertise it here with the mother's details, health test results and your licence number, and link it to your free breeder profile.

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Is it free to advertise here?

Yes. A breeder profile and your litter and stud dog adverts are free. Premium profiles, featured placement and sponsored articles are optional paid extras; see pricing.

Do I need a licence to advertise puppies?

In England you need a dog breeding licence from your council if you breed three or more litters in 12 months or breed and sell dogs as a business, and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own schemes. Licensed breeders show their licence number and issuing council on every advert. Puppies must be at least eight weeks old before they go to new homes.

Is my listing already here?

We add licensed breeders from councils' public registers. Search for your kennel name; if it is listed you can claim it and edit everything.

Buying a Schipperke puppy

Searching for Schipperke puppies for sale? The breeders on this page have listed their own kennels on caninebreeder.co.uk, and we do not sell puppies ourselves. A Schipperke puppy grows into a small, busy, watchful dog of around 5.5–7.5 kg that can live in a flat as well as a house, given up to an hour of exercise a day and an active routine. Before paying a deposit, ask for both parents' MPSIIIB and bob tail DNA results and check them on the RKC Health Test Results Finder. Some puppies are born with a natural bob tail, so ask how the breeder records this at registration. Always visit in person, see the pups with their mother and get the sale terms in writing. Our buyer safety guide explains deposits, contracts and common scams, and the Schipperke breed guide covers temperament and care.

Health tests to ask about

The Schipperke Club describes the breed as robust and hardy, with few health problems. The RKC's good practice step is prioritising genetic diversity, which its guidance links to using inbreeding calculators and limiting popular sires. At best practice it adds two DNA tests: one for mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIB (MPSIIIB), a progressive disease that mainly affects the brain, usually showing as tremor and poor balance at two to four years old, and one for the T-box (bob tail) mutation.

One copy of the T-box mutation shortens the tail. The RKC says puppies with two copies are likely to die before birth, and any born have severe deformities, so the club says two bob tail dogs should never be mated. Since October 2008 the RKC has recorded natural bob tails on registration certificates if a vet's confirmation on practice headed paper accompanies the litter registration.

The club also encourages DNA testing for von Willebrand disease type 1, an inherited bleeding disorder, and keeps a UK register of MPSIIIB results; its health page reports carriers but no affected dogs in the UK. It also monitors epilepsy and Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease, a hip joint disease seen mainly in small breeds, while stressing that neither is common. The Schipperke is in Breed Watch Category 1.

  • Prioritising genetic diversity (RKC good practice)
  • DNA test for Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPSIIIB) (RKC best practice)
  • DNA test for T-box (bob tail) (RKC best practice)
  • DNA test for von Willebrand disease type 1 (encouraged by The Schipperke Club; not listed by the RKC)
  • Breed Watch: Category 1

More for Schipperke owners and breeders

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